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5:24 PM,
Apr. 29, 2014

Froma Harrop

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Froma Harrop
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This beach community is LA's latest magnet for hip, cool and gentrification. Modest cottages currently sell for an immodest $2 million, even as homeless people, sprawled on nearby lawns, holler for handouts.

Not everyone here agrees on what constitutes change for the better, but there's a certain unity of anger over the sale of Venice's historic post office to producer Joel Silver ("The Matrix").

The Spanish-style structure, built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration, was a community hub and attraction. It is here that Orson Welles filmed the gloomy opening in "Touch of Evil." The ...